Failed to find any ModelLoaders registered for model class: class com.google.firebase.storage.StorageReference

I've gone through all the previously asked questions on this topic. But the solutions mentioned aren't working out for me.

As prescribed in the Glide readme, I've registered a model loader for my app, it resides in the app->src->java directory: MyAppGlideModule.java:

package com.kenadams.app;

import android.content.Context;
import com.bumptech.glide.Glide;
import com.bumptech.glide.Registry;
import com.bumptech.glide.annotation.GlideModule;
import com.bumptech.glide.module.AppGlideModule;
import com.firebase.ui.storage.images.FirebaseImageLoader;
import com.google.firebase.storage.StorageReference;

import java.io.InputStream;

@GlideModule
public class MyAppGlideModule extends AppGlideModule {

    @Override
    public void registerComponents(Context context, Glide glide, Registry registry) {
        // Register FirebaseImageLoader to handle StorageReference
        registry.append(StorageReference.class, InputStream.class,
                new FirebaseImageLoader.Factory());
    }

}

This is how I'm calling the Glide module in my adapter class: adapter.java

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(topicAdapter.ViewHolder holder, int position) {
  //Setting text      
holder.textView.setText(HtmlCompat.fromHtml(this.data.get(position),HtmlCompat.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));
//Setting image
        Glide.with(holder.iv.getContext()).load(sr.child("/1.png")).into(holder.iv);


    }

There are no syntax errors and the app is compiling successfully, yet I keep getting this runtime error:

com.bumptech.glide.Registry$NoModelLoaderAvailableException: Failed to find any ModelLoaders registered for model class: class com.google.firebase.storage.StorageReference
        at com.bumptech.glide.load.model.ModelLoaderRegistry.getModelLoaders(ModelLoaderRegistry.java:77)
        at com.bumptech.glide.Registry.getModelLoaders(Registry.java:594)
        at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeHelper.getLoadData(DecodeHelper.java:212)
        at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeHelper.getCacheKeys(DecodeHelper.java:229)
        at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.ResourceCacheGenerator.startNext(ResourceCacheGenerator.java:47)
        at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.runGenerators(DecodeJob.java:311)
        at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.runWrapped(DecodeJob.java:277)
        at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DecodeJob.run(DecodeJob.java:235)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
        at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.executor.GlideExecutor$DefaultThreadFactory$1.run(GlideExecutor.java:413)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)
        at com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.executor.GlideExecutor$DefaultPriorityThreadFactory$1.run(GlideExecutor.java:372)

Some answers have previously mentioned to use GlideApp instead of Glide.However, this doesn't work for me. I keep getting the syntax error: Cannot resolve symbol 'GlideApp'

Further when I try to build the module , the build keeps failing due android-exported:true not being in the intent filter. This doesn't make sense as MyAppGlideModule extends AppGlideModule and not AppCompatActivity. So, even if I wanted to add an intent filter with android-exported:true I'd be unable to do so.